Statistics
At the end of 2011 there were around 1,352,610 Internet users in Moldova, with the overall population of 3,559,500 (without Transnistria) this means that the penetration level is only at 38%, at the end of Q3 2012 there were 396,500 wired broadband subscribers and 167,600 mobile subscribers, most of them are from Chişinău. In 2004 there were 183 Internet cafés registered in Chişinău alone, however as personal computers and Internet access became much cheaper over the years the number of registered Internet cafés has decreased and in 2012 there were only 5 registered cafés remaining in the country. Since 2010 many providers have started offering unlimited 100Mbit plans, the average price for a 100Mbit plan is 200lei or 13€. At the moment the overall throughput of all external Internet channels owned by Moldtelecom is more than 40 Gbit/s. The overall throughput of all external Internet channels owned by StarNet is more than 40 Gbit/s.
In 2011 there were 31 registered ISPs in Moldova.
The table below shows the number of Internet users in Moldova (without Transnistria) from year 2000 till present. Statistics are provided by ITU and ANRCETI (National Regulatory Agency for Electronic Communications and Information Technology of the Republic of Moldova)
| Year | Number of Users | Number of Broadband Subscribers | Population | Penetration | Data provided by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | ~47,372 | no data | ~3,644,070 | 1.3% | ITU |
| 2005 | ~525,663 | ~10,400 | ~3,600,436 | 14.6% | ITU |
| 2007 | ~734,127 | ~47,200 | ~3,581,110 | 20.5% | ITU |
| 2009 | ~981,065 | ~186,700 | ~3,567,512 | 27.5% | ITU / ANRCETI |
| 2010 | ~1,151,073 | ~269,100 | ~3,563,695 | 32.3% | ITU / ANRCETI |
| 2011 | ~1,352,610 | ~355,100 | ~3,559,500 | 38.0% | ITU / ANRCETI |
* Statistical data may change as new data becomes available !
Structure of Broadband Service Market, by Access Technology
| Year | xDSL | Cable | FTTx | Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 77.7% | 10.4% | 11.4% | 0.6% |
| 2008 | 78.2% | 6.2% | 15.5% | 0.1% |
| 2009 | 71.2% | 4.4% | 24.1% | 0.4% |
| 2010 | 61.2% | 2.8% | 35.4% | 0.6% |
| 2011 | 55.4% | 4.6% | 39.7% | 0.3% |
| 2012 Q3 | 52.3% | 5.5% | 41.9% | 0.3% |
As of January 2013:
The most popular browser in the country is Google Chrome with 61.49% of the market share, followed by Mozilla Firefox with 20.83%, Internet Explorer with 8.32%, Opera with 6.58% and Safari with 1.35% of the market share.
The most popular operating system in the country is Microsoft Windows 7 with 58.45% of the market share, followed by Microsoft Windows XP with 33.51% and Microsoft Windows 8 with 1.83% of the market share; the rest is shared between various distributions of Linux and Apple OSX.
The most popular search engine in the country is Google with 92.72% of the market share, followed by Russian version of Yandex with 4.21% of the market share; the rest is shared between Microsoft Bing, Yahoo! Search and others.
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